רָדָה
râdâh · raw-daw'
to tread down, i.e. subjugate; specifically, to crumble off
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to tread down, i.e. subjugate; specifically, to crumble off
- to tread down, i.e. subjugate
- specifically, to crumble off
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (come to, make to) have dominion, prevail against, reign, (bear, make to) rule,(-r, over), take.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
The head, the highest of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָדָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and let them have dominion1 · 4%
- and have dominion1 · 4%
- thou shalt not rule1 · 4%
- ye shall not rule1 · 4%
- shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule1 · 4%
- you shall reign1 · 4%
- shall come he that shall have dominion1 · 4%
- have dominion1 · 4%
- made me have dominion1 · 4%
- and he took1 · 4%
- not them that he had taken1 · 4%
- for he had dominion1 · 4%
- which ruled1 · 4%
- which bare rule1 · 4%
- that bare rule1 · 4%
- so that they had the dominion1 · 4%
- shall have dominion1 · 4%
- with their ruler1 · 4%
- he shall have dominion1 · 4%
- rule1 · 4%
- they were; and they shall rule1 · 4%
- he that ruled1 · 4%
- him, and made him rule1 · 4%
- bear rule1 · 4%
- and it prevaileth1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.